Control Philips Hue Lamps with Lua
This is just a throw-away tooling to control Hue Lamps with a simple Lua script.
hue -interval=2000 script.lua # run script.lua every 2 seconds (omit *-interval=x* to run one-time)The runtime exposes loop global variable when ran in interval mode, so one is able to keep track of the iterations run.
The runtime exposes bridges which is a table of all bridges "found"; (format: {bridge_serial(string)=bridge(table)})
# install Lua (i.e. checkout, make generic, sudo make install)
make build
sudo make install-
Sometimes SSDP does not discover a Hue bridge/a Hue bridge does not advertise itself; try re-running the script when this happens.
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When creating a user, it is necessary to first hit the 'link' button on the bridge; if you don't, an error will tell you to do so.